Bed-wetters were punished by nuns

A former resident of a Catholic orphanage has told an inquiry how she was severely punished for wetting the bed.

June Smith said she had moved into Smyllum Park in Lanark in 1969 when she was about three or four.

She told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in Edinburgh yesterday that she persistently wet the bed, which saw her severely punished by staff and nuns. “Sometimes she (one of the sisters) would throw disinfectant over you and put her knuckles right into your head,” Mrs Smith said.